Helium planet
A helium planet is a type of gas planet that may form via mass loss from a low mass white dwarf star. Ordinary gas giant planets consist primarily of hydrogen, with helium as a secondary component. But a helium planet can form in an environment where all the hydrogen has been processed to helium or other heavier elements by nuclear burning.
Origin
One scenario involves an AM CVn type of symbiotic binary star composed of two helium core white dwarf stars surrounded by a circumbinary helium accretion disk formed during mass transfer from the less massive to the more massive white dwarf. After it loses most of its mass, the less massive white dwarf may approach planetary mass.
Characteristics
Helium planets are predicted to be of roughly similar diameter to hydrogen/helium planets of the same mass. But even supermassive helium worlds will still be planets, not brown dwarfs, because they contain no deuterium and cannot fuse anything anymore.
